Payments company Stripe, from Limerick-born brothers Patrick and John Collison, has been announced as the international payments partner for RTÉ's global Gaelic games streaming service GAAGo.

The Government could pay back €10bn of the IMF bailout loans by the end of this year, according to Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Europe’s largest annual technology event, the Web Summit gets underway in Dublin from today.

Specialist IT start-up YellowSchedule has landed €600,000 in funding from various sources, which will enable it to grow both its employee base and customer numbers.

Irish researchers have developed a hi-tech interactive school desk which could transform the classroom environment and predict learning difficulties.

Broadcaster Charlie Bird has said students should not pay any attention to comments from the founder of The Summit yesterday, where he said he preferred Trinity graduates when hiring.

The companies behind the Dublin Web Summit and F.ounders events continue to enjoy rapid growth, with combined accumulated profits increasing by €143,391 to top €600,000.

Tourists and ‘techies’ last year contributed to one of the country’s best known pubs, O’Donoghue’s on Dublin’s Merrion Row, having a stellar year to record post-tax profits of over €310,000.

One of the largest internet security companies in the world has claimed European countries are “by far” the most likely to abuse privacy laws when demanding details about online activity.

From the father of the internet to the future of Facebook, by way of the world’s most famous skateboarder, the Dublin Web Summit managed to capture the past, present, and future of the World Wide Web under one roof.

Business leaders in Dublin have criticised local authorities in the capital over their handling of problems with the city’s water supply and the introduction of severe nightly water restrictions.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny ran the opening bell for New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange today as part of the Dublin Web Summit.

Some of the world’s top entrepreneurs are among 10,000 people gathering in Dublin for a two-day festival of ideas and technology.

Irish companies are being urged to increase their online presence to help expand their operations.

This year Cork is set to take part in one of the world’s top technology conferences, the annual Dublin Web Summit by running a start-up train from Cork to the event.

The business was only dreamed up in a Dublin bedroom a little over two years ago, but already the companies behind the Dublin Web Summit and F.ounders have recorded profits of over €450,000.

Cork-headquartered PCH International generated €510m ($710m) in revenue in 2011 — a 72% increase on the previous year.

The death of the traditional games console, the blurring of boundaries between print and electronic media and an impending social media backlash all featured in yesterday’s opening session of the Dublin Web Summit.

This year’s Dublin Web Summit climaxes this evening, with one enterprise winning the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Start-Up Competition.

THE former chief executive of philanthropic organisation the American Ireland Fund (AIF) Kingsley Aikins is receiving $500,000 (€385,832) over five years as part of his severance deal with the organisation.

The Business and Finance Awards have taken place in Dublin last night.

TECHNOLOGY firm Datahug has secured €1 million investment funding as the massively successful Dublin Web Summit draws to a close.

OVER 160 new hi-tech jobs were announced by four IDA client companies yesterday, boosting the Government’s push to make Ireland a leading European technology hub.

THE founders of LinkedIn and Youtube have been confirmed as speakers at the Dublin Web Summit — Ireland’s largest tech event.

ONE of the co-founders of Facebook is being tipped as a speaker for the next Dublin Web Summit — which is one of the largest tech events in Ireland and Britain.

THE founders of Startup bootcamp used yesterday’s Dublin Web Summit to announce the addition of Ireland to its growing list of locations. The venture by the technology entrepreneurship mentoring programme, which started in Copenhagen, acts as a high level incubation centre for technology start-ups.

The Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said he would appoint the post of Minister for Energy and Communications to an outside expert, if the party is returned to Government.

LABOUR’s director of elections, Ruairí Quinn, has predicted the party is set to double its current representation in the next Dáil by winning in excess of 40 seats.

WITH every chance you could become a billionaire with the click of a button, technology has now become very cool.

IF you want a job with the one of the hottest young internet companies around, the first thing you’ll have to figure out is: Why am I here?